Updating Blog regularly is one of the effective content marketing strategy in the present eCommerce marketplace. This activity will draw the more interactive website and drive your website more attractive to the visitors. Magento 2 Blog extension by Mageplaza, you will get an impressive chance to provide the latest news about your store, upcoming products, promotions, and get customers’ feedback in easy and simple way.

Product Detail Page contain posts can be added to Related Products to display in Post View Page. The selected products will recognize those posts are Related Posts and display them on the Product Detail Page.

In the Enable Related Post field: Choose “Yes” to show related posts on Product Detail Page.

In the Limit of Related Post field: Enter the number of related posts can display. If you leave it blank, the default number is 1 post.

In the Enable Search Box field: Choose “Yes” to active the search box at the sidebar.

In the Maximum Query Result field: Enter the maximum number of posts that the search box will search. Without setting the limitation, the search box will search all posts that match the search character.

In the Min Chars field: Search results will only be displayed if the customer enters in the search box with enough configured characters in this section.

In the Visible Image: Select “Yes” to display the thumbnail of the post when the post is found in the search box.

In the Description length field: Limit the length of the short description can show along with found posts. If you leave it blank, the short description will not display.

Open Comments section, set a comment type with one of the following options.

Default Comment: Customers need to login a new account to be able to comment, admins can manage those comments in the backend. Choose ‘No’ at the Need for Approval field to disable the comment management feature. After that, those comments will be shown on the frontend as soon as customers comment.

Disqus Comment: Admin needs to create a Disqus unique name and fill it in the configuration. This also requires the customer have a Disqus account to be able to comment.

Facebook Comment: If you choose this type of comment, some add-on fields will display like the below:

In the AppID field: Admins need to create a Facebook App to get the AppID to fill this field. You can refer more in here

In the Facebook: Number of Comment field: This limits the number of comment displaying on the Post View Page. If you leave it blank, it will show all available comments.

In the Facebook: Color Scheme field: Choose the color which display commenter’s information.

In the Facebook: Order by field: Choose the arrangement for comment displaying.
* Social: The comment which has more like(s) will display from the top.
* Reverse Time: The comment which is published first will display from the bottom.
* Time: The comment which is published first will display from the top.

Disable Completely: choose this type if you don’t want to display comments.

Only being able to manage Default Comment when choosing “Yes”” at Need for Approval field at the Content/Better Blog//Configuration/Comment

When choosing “No”, the status of the default comment is Approved and it will display as soon as customers comment.

After the customer comments a post, the comment will be sent to the admin with the status Pending.

The comment is displayed if the admin switches the comment status into Approve, and in vice versa result if Status is Spam or Pending.

when editing a comment, admin need to note as the following:

Post: The post title which is linked to Edit Post of Manage Post in the backend.

Customer: The commenter, who is linked to Edit Customer in the backend

Status: Admins only need to select Status = Approved to allow those comments showing in the frontend.

Content: Admins can edit the content of the comment at this field. The comment at the frontend will change as the backend. In the comment management grid, admins only see up to 150 characters of the content.

Widget is an awesome functionality you can insert to the CMS page from Magento 2 Configuration because it can be considered as a predefined set of configuration options. In the widget, you can add links that navigate directly to any content page, category, or product as you need.

In Magento 2 Better Blog extension, you can add a widget in which shows Related blog posts, Lastest blog post, etc. Follow this instruction to learn how to create a new widget to enrich your content immdiately.

Choose the page you want to add a new widget by following Mageplaza>BetterBlog:Post. You can add the widget by two methods